no 1 in the morning here in moscow hi there good morning from kevin 0 in this is r.t. international 1st today than legal and medical professionals are accusing the british government of refusing to investigate chronic failures in the handling of the pandemic and a range their own public covert inquiry. this inquiry the people's inquiry is the 1st inquiry of any that is taking place in 2 cove it pandemic and the handling of it by the government right now the public want art and says particularly the bereaved of which there are thousands unfortunately many of the families do believe that their loved ones did die needlessly not everyone obviously but a large number but equally those who work on the front line who've been susceptible now the frontline isn't just in hospitals it's in care homes it's in shops it in workplaces where people have had to carry on working so what the families want to know is what the situation should have been like in terms of nightingale hospitals personal protection all these questions which haven't been satisfactory answers we need the answers now and they can be provided people have a very strong views about what should have happened in the 1st place and what is continuing not to happen and therefore what are the strategies that the government has employed and so these are questions that you know we can ask going to cause a judicial framework and we can ask them quickly and hopefully we'll have are already this year and with the number of u.k. cofa death passing 125000 now one woman has come forward asking for her father to be recognised as the country's 1st victim thing it raises questions about what the government could have done differently. we just saw remember him as far as a loving father as a lot of our he was a lovely man he would have done anything for you if we can't. understand but we need to learn some serious lessons from this so this doesn't happen again back in january 20 2083 year old peter after it passed away long before cave it became a national diagram and when the concern was limited mostly to china the only just come about in china so we we were told you know without a shadow of doubt it was not in this country at the time so there was no why it was on our radar at the time the tipping point for me i think was the inability to get off the oxygen he struggles to march as time went by and we knew more more about coven we saw these patients in hospital with the braids but i just kept thinking this is a public health experts claim peta afterwards case lays bare the case failure to monitor the virus in its early stages and that there may have been many more deaths in the early months of 2020 than was 1st thought the 1st covert death in the u.k. was recorded on the 5th of march of 2020 weeks before the government succumbed to lockdown on the 23rd of march by that time the pandemic had already sunk its teeth into the country but jane's father passed on the 30th of january of 2020 and that was only days after the city of rwanda where the 1st case of credit were detected went into lockdown she's now calling for the world health organization and the n.h.s. to publicly recognise the historical significance of her father's passing as the u.k.'s 1st private fatality just through that he should go down in history as a part of history now isn't it you know it doesn't matter what you read in the books you know there's always that diary of that 1st person and i think my dad should really have remembered well 20 or 20 years of covert 19 will go down in history as being totally unknown and president jane says it's not just about her father's. legacy but about correcting the official records but the government says there was little transmission present at the time of peter outwits death every death is a tragedy there is no evidence that there was sustained transmission within the community in january 2020 we acted swiftly to curb coronavirus and at all times we have been guided by the best available evidence to deliver a strategy designed to protect the n.h.s. and save lives put jane questions still remain unanswered about what actually happened and if anything would have been different had the government acted sooner that the country. french medical workers have sounded the alarm as norman covert treatment slashed amid a worrying rise in coronavirus deaths lack of hospital beds because of it charlotte who bensky reports. hospitals in the paris region know once again preparing to be overwhelmed by couvade cases with nearly all i.c.u. beds filled the authorities in the force of all the hospitals to slash all known coding procedures by 40 percent this is a very tense situation we needed to react very 1st of course for old the country now has the highest number of intensive care patients seen since november during the 2nd wave of the virus for those who work in hospitals the situation is more than 10 days. was on the trees do you need more hospital beds hospitals are closing and there are thousands of bags that have been lost it's unacceptable and we have demanded a real adjustment of our salaries and generally of our profession there has been no difference on the ground since june the rest to people who are quitting the hospitals perhaps it's time to ask the question as to why health care workers are stepping down and take a fact of measures in order to convince them to state we see the reason awareness but it's only facade because in reality there is no understanding of the gravity of the dangerous situation that we are in what is different though this time around is that more of the patients in intensive care said to be from younger age groups the ones haven't yet had access to a vaccine the government has relied on a road campaign to make a dent in infections to sticks however the vaccination program has been heavily criticized for it slow progress now french doctors are up in all most of the being told that they'll have no vaccine deliveries of astra zeneca for a week instead the jobs will be sent to follow missy's the government has decided to exclude doctors and. pharmacists but does imagine that increasing the numbers of vaccination size will increase the doses meanwhile measures taken to try and curb cases. still appeared to be insufficient france has been under nightly curfew for months now and over the last few weeks more and more regions have been placed into weekend lockdowns so far paris has avoided that fate but for how much longer i think the french people have had enough and that it would not be so effective they have been obedient and they are fed up. concern and lock down for the weekend i hope not but all these measures in place not to mention the curfew it gets complicated we cannot do much if in addition to that we introduce lockdown and we can't make it even more complicated anyway should we really have no choice will have to go through we don't know exactly the reason why sometimes we are in lockdown and sometimes we aren't and i think that the top authorities are facing other problems that they have failed to resolve but if there is not a lockdown we will suffer according to france's director general of health still a foregone conclusion to these you daniel this measure of last resort would be offered to the government if we had the impression that the hospital could not hold out we are in a tense situation and we are monitoring the situation day by day yet it's clear tough decisions will have to be made in the coming days and hours so let's even ski altie paris well docs who spoke to us said restrictions on treating patients is a disturbing development. also in france we have an infection rate at quite a high level and we have difficulties with access to the vaccine we have a lot that is badly organized with the delivery of the vaccine and in particular the prioritization of the limited number of doses that we have in france we get told that for the following week we do not have enough doses that means that all the patients scheduled for vaccination the person said risk they risk severe complications if they ever catch covert it is very difficult for a doctor to select from his patients those most at risk and even more difficult to tell someone who was told they would have the vaccine that it is being taken by someone who is less of a priority there is great anger at the government's response it didn't have the capacity to vaccinate and what we are missing is simply the manpower but it is totally crazy in fact it misses the point that. the news german system. is for the lawsuit against the build tabloid newspaper of claiming its reporting was actually spying for the kremlin a correspondent joe mcculloch calling bread to go through the claims. well 1st of all it's time to take a look at the wording that was used by built it sounds absolutely sensational that was putting into the title the headline a rough quote from the whistleblower which says i had to or i was forced to spy on a like say no volley and then in one of the top paragraphs of that built article they said this exactly according to research by bill the other group of this regime had this public enemy number one looks in the volley and to have his employees spied on in berlin last year for this russia's leadership used the russian foreign broadcast. which in return relies on to jim one employee spying on the orders of kremlin through german nationals who worked for the german branch of r t that sounds scary some would call it appalling but let's continue reading this article and at least trying to get to the point under standing what the basis of it is the whistleblower danny along the way is describing his assignments during the time when russia's number one opposition activist alike saying the volley was being treated at the sherry tay hospital in berlin after an alleged poisoning but how does that lead from being just reporting in to being spy exactly that's what i was going to get to the article contains screenshots from what built and the whistleblower are calling a secret chat with the our team management but i'll tell you what i actually know these people from that personally and yes they are in charge of our voyage and they're saying that there was nothing secret about this chat it was just something that they created for communication on that particular incitement and we know that in the news business and news or t.v. production for every so i mean do you create a new chat and that's something that's absolutely common at this point moving. on with the artes alleged wrongdoings ordered by the kremlin that was lifted by the built danielle's assignments included filming or taking shots of what was happening outside the sherry tate hospital including the vast security presence well that is news but also trying to get inside the hospital to inside that clinic to get some exclusive shots of anything that's like to the story possibly in the vollies associates relatives there the corridors at the doors which is again i believe a core basic element of investigative journalism at the time of breaking news if you think of it that that's absolutely it and to be fair these kind of things trying trying to get these kind of pictures was exactly what built itself was to ever since the volley was flown to germany for treatment because we saw them publish the photos of the door of the room where in a volley was also the inside of the plane etc so this is what the head of r t deutsche had to say about this aspect specifically to accuse us of spying and at the same time to post images of every little step develop he makes including pictures of his garden hosts a word if russian intelligence wanted to get any additional information they would buy a subscription to build plus and of course we want to remind our colleagues of german that just nation that for now at least protect the media and loving it to collect information and metis that are considered to be of public interest so far just sounds like the day job of journalism here is there any made to this what else does daniel accuse us of another claim that the whistleblower is making that is that the senior r t staff members were always directly in touch with the bosses of the government and what we see in the bill article is a picture of my colleague with the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov of wow. tell you that it was from a christmas party how was that that christmas party 2 loads of journalists were invited there even foreign journalists tens of them maybe even hundreds of them and everyone wanted to take a photo with sergei lavrov so that doesn't prove anything and my colleague is saying that no she doesn't have a direct line with members of the russian government. they must actually mean. not just a member of the media looking back it's my job and my view. that any. next there was a part about ra please the parties video agency about the van staying day and night outside the charity hospital streaming that is something that video agencies do all the time that's their job and i can tell you that when it comes to doing a song for example ruptly was able to catch the moment when the founder of wiki leaks was being dragged out of the equivalent embassy in london thanks for thanks to staying there 247 and the claim was that none of these broadcasts were made public but i can show you screen shots even from you tube that's available to everyone that know we were showing them to everyone and it's easy to get all that online so like i was saying you get to the bottom of the article you keep reading and you like you said you want to get this meat where's the evidence that this is specifically spying ordered by the kremlin but even when you get to the very end you don't see it but speaking of tabloid built though my colleagues have showed me a large number of pieces on the build website with criticism against r.t. that came out ever since our announced that they were launching a fully fledged t.v. channel at the end of this year. and my colleagues even called it a smear campaign against us and if you think that it didn't lead to anything it could be a coincidence it could be something else but last month a german bank closed the accounts of our t. dortch and rightly so what i've just described to you the latest bombshell by built could be the culmination of that smear campaign. with a lengthy report into it in r t. c and also george galloway they got their teeth into this well sharing their thoughts on the state of media freedom as they saw it in germany. the idea of build magazine all magazines are get accusing one of the largest television stations on earth. of being some sort of spying organization is quite something i'm going to remember the editor just the other day was accusing china of a virus and deliberately sending mosques around in some sort of what appeared to be some kind of conspiracy films have been made about build this of 990 film called the man inside about the ethical way that their magazine works if i was the editor of build i would be very concerned about a law case because this magazine is notorious. for breaching german press standards and now it's going to be in court accusing journalists or people comporting to be journalists stringers for r.t. as spies unsure of the r.t. dortch is doing exactly the right thing and taking prompt legal action to resolve this matter reckless and dangerous and defamatory act and dangerous for journalists and broadcasters working for still broadcasters all over the world like german state broadcasters or british state broadcasters if a journalist for the b.b.c. is now routinely going to be accused of being a spy for the british government because he or she works for a state broadcaster in britain where is that going to end we have to draw very clear lines in these things the protection of journalists from false accusations and from harassment such as this is an important part of a free society and germany presumably and. self in the category of free society. this is a tape coming out the late letter reveals washington wants the afghan government to share power with an enemy it's been fighting for decades it's not a new idea that will tell you more after the break. others financials while i don't buy any i cause honest futures. almost friday as of last summer my ex from the future trucker was kaiser. the world is driven by a dream shaped by. the day or thinks. we dared to ask. joe biden famously said nothing will fundamentally change just appears to be the case when it comes to u.s. policy regarding the middle east coast we asked the question what is the strategic value we'll give you the least who benefits from all these forever wars. the u.s. is urging the afghan government to share power with the taliban the revelation coming from a leaked u.s. letter that the kabul they must be described as a last 1 ditch effort before a deadline for the pentagon to quit the country caleb maupin reports. it's america's longest war ever remember why the troops were 1st send into afghanistan to remove the taliban regime the taliban has been given the opportunity to surrender all the terrorists in afghanistan and to close down their camps and operations full warning has been given and time is running out the united states military has begun strikes against al qaeda terrorist training camps and military installations of the taliban regime and afghanistan this military action is a part of our campaign against terrorism. the past 2 administrations have promised to find an exit strategy our troops will continue coming home at a steady pace by 2014 this process of transition will be complete and the afghan people will be responsible for their own security we will end this war bring our troops home and by the end of next year america's war in afghanistan will be over from got pretty close even promising to set a withdrawal date. we should have the small remain in the brave men and women serving in afghanistan home by christmas and have a moment at the end of the year joe biden seems to have come up with a new solution peaceful coexistence between the afghan government and the taliban a proposal that was leaked to the media would give america's longtime battlefield enemies significant control over the country now the taliban would get 50 percent representation in key executive bodies that would enable them to propose new legislation and help write the new constitution however the afghan government would get one extra member so they could be the deciding vote and exchange the taliban would agree to a total ceasefire and join the new military panel essentially being absorbed into the security forces of the country the taliban will cut any ties with foreign powers and quote not expand their force configurations or recruit new fighters in the linkletter the new u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken urged the afghan government to just accept this agreement i urge you to develop constructive positions on these written proposals many are currently anticipating yet another spring offensive more deaths and more killing however at this point it appears the united states is willing to hand power back to the very people they've been fighting for the past 20 years the proposed agreement has gotten a mixed reaction from afghan officials they can make a decision on their troops not on the people of afghanistan but will never accept a coup and imposed peace. the weakness in the message of the u.s. state department is that they have not recognized afghanistan structure and it has coercive language and a coerced and tailored piece will not lead anywhere i think if if there is any lesson to be learned here it is never do anything like this ever again stop trying to overthrow governments in venezuela and elsewhere around the world immediately you this is a tragedy however it plays out however long the troops remain for the people of afghanistan most of whom are very poorly represented by either the afghan government or the taliban and this deal could have been had over 19 years ago with a lot of people still alive and trillions of dollars on spent so the obvious number one lesson is never ever do this sort of thing it is immoral and it is criminal how in the past 20 years the war in afghanistan has looked pretty on winnable but it appears the new administration and the u.s. state department may have crafted the least painful way to bow out caleb mop and r.t. new york. prisoners are given a mixed response after plainclothes officers began patrolling the streets of the belgian come but a list of a shocking rise in sexual harassment cases there the measure of fall is women complaining that they now fear leaving their homes over the growth and sexual assaults brussels police say they hope to catch assailants in the act is a tax and rarely reported by victims and women's rights activists welcome the initiative. i'm totally in favor of this idea because finally we are seeing you know this police went to court and asked for it to end a budget into this you know horrible emergency that is violence and harassment against women finally we men have a voice and they're speaking loud and they're saying you know no i don't accept harassment i don't accept to buy an ounce you know this isn't justice we need to change and our politicians there finally listen to this voices and that's why we need to get a budget a big one in order to tackle this problem and find all the best solutions like this one trolling the streets in order to help women. trust in the police are so low that many residents of offices more than the thought of a soul. i don't feel safe around police i see police as a grasses and violent people and repressive people that protect me. i prefer the police and gentrified themselves as officers that's clear for me i don't want police dressed like civilians. police play an important role but we should find a way to communicate with the police won't be there when you really need them. i think it's a good idea because there is a lot of. industry. for sure when this policeman is you know from. the woman's rights activist we heard from there warning to the root of the problem goes far. so we need to not only to press and this is good to protect our press but we should also think about that prevent these problems to happen and that's why we need education when indication of for our children for our boys and our girth and we do cation of for immigrants who come to our countries especially if they come from kountry spread they don't respect women as we do in the western countries we need to be all engaged more to tackle this problem because women's rights are human rights and in 2021 we should and once and for all violence against women. new york city's 1st ladies told people to physically intervene if they see a hate crime taking place the mayor's wife singled out the rise in the souls on specific ethnic minorities as a texan asian american communities continue where asking new yorkers to show up for their neighbors intervene when we disengage from violence harassment i know that can be frightening when you are unsure what to do or say but you can learn. says he's suffering a rise in crime across the board including homicide shootings burglaries and cafe shooting incidents almost doubled last year and reports say there's been another 75 percent jump in the last month alone last summer to slashed a $1000000000.00 from law enforcement budgets after pressure from protesters to defund the police the city at the time said they'd reinvest the money in youth and social services we are reducing the size of our police force by not having the next recruit class we are reducing our overtime levels were shifting functions away from police to civilian agencies but a retired new york police deputy inspector says the advice to intervene in possible crimes could leave more people hurt. well you talk about civilians and if it were people just being assaulted you almost put now a cold food rigidly to go and do things or you know almost like you know the superman or superwoman we can't have that because it's very irresponsible people are going to get hurt god forbid somebody dies by trying to help somebody their lawyers going to sue the city and say hey we're the mayor's wife told us to do this if you get not call from the top leader in city government telling you to go out there in protection neighbors that i believe there will be some liability and that regards when you call it for people to go out and do that the only thing that severely you should be doing is maybe videotaping from a very safe distance getting a detailed description of the person or persons who's committed india so and then call in i want those are the 3 things that people should be doing that's now on police officials. it's 30 minutes past the hour to proselyte latest developments and all the stories when they happen on our side whatever social media today for now this wednesday kevin oh in starting off whatever you're doing happy days are good and profitable one for you. well good forward to talking to you all that technology should work for people. i robot must obey the orders given to a human being except with such orders that conflict with the 1st law show your identification for should be very careful about artificial intelligence and the point obviously is too great trust our government here.